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a little too early to write him off for life. >> should they be locked away for good? >> he had a tough upbringing but he still had to have known right from wrong. this is al jazerra america, live from new york city, i am tony harris with a look at today's top stories. man suspected to be behind the 2012 attack on the u.s. em base in libya captured any asik writ raid. fighters closing in on baghdad as sectarian warfare is growing in iraq. rare twin tornadoes flatten a small town in nebraska. more storms forecast for today. ♪ ♪
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after nearly two years on the run, the obama administration announced today that one of the people suspected of carrying out the deadly attack on the u.s. consolate in benghazi libya is now in u.s. custody. four americans including u.s. ambassador chris stevens were killed in the september 2012 attack. mike viqueira joins us live from washington. tell us what you know at this point about the suspect and the arrest? >> reporter: we have had a round of briefings from officials all over washington today, tony and basically what we know is this, late on sunday, libya time, about midday sunday, eastern time, u.s. special forces according to president obama who spoke about this earlier today, launched a raid inside libyan territory, their target said to be a master mind of benghazi attacks on september 11th 2012 resulting as you reported in the deaths of four americans including ambassador chris stevens and causing a political firestorm ever since here in
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washington and elsewhere. i had been designated as a terrorist as will as the organization he's said to be affiliated with. just back in january now after two year's time he's in custody and on his way to face at least three counts. president obama here is what towed say about it. >> we continue to think about and pray for the family of those killed during that terrible attack. but more importantly it's important for us to sends a message to the world, that when americans were attacked, no matter how long it takes w we wl filed those responsible and i believe bring them to justice. >> reporter: for the moment the critics are silence odd capitol hill, many welcoming --
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republicans welcoming the capture. but believe many that he should be braun to guantanamo bay, the prison there, of course. the president saying no, he will be brought to the u.s. and face three criminal counts. >> this guy "conside guy white x speaking to are thers. years ago, why the delay in capturing him? >> reporter: that's the question being posed to officials to the. you are right, it's been almost two years here. the state department saying that they had to take in to account a range of factors, it's within thing said the defense department spokesman to walk up to somebody and conduct an interview with them. it's quite another to stage a raid inside another country and grab a guy, basically. admiral kirby, rear admiral james kirk i is the pentagon spokesperson, here what he is to say. >> what matters is not at that it took a matter of time to get
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bill but that he with got him i can't speak for his living habits, let's say for argument sake he was living in plain sight. he's not anymore. >> reporter: the operation took place sunday, there was a national security meeting here at the white house late yesterday, tony. we all assume that it was about the situation in iraq. evidently they had other things to discuss. tone. >> i mike viqueira at the white house for us, appreciate. seconin 2006 in 2007 fight presser the islamic state of eye laciraq and levant has been accd of carrying out mass killings of shias in areas that they have captured. the police said shia in litsch amen killed nearly four dozen sunni detainees at a jail that bagged duh, the state department says the prime minister needs do more to quell the violence. >> we have continued to make the place to prime minister
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al-maliki. we met with him just yesterday. taking steps to govern in a nonsectarian way and increase support to the security forces is what should focus should be on, this is obviously the opposite of what that is. >> and lisa stark joins us now from washington. good to see you, besides embassy evacuations and beefing up security there, is there any word on what more the administration may do in iraq? >> reporter: there are some reports that the administration is thinking about sending in some special forces, that would be for training and advising. the pentagon today would not confirm that. they did reiterate what the white house has said, no combat troops on the ground in iraq and the pentagon also detailed a little more about the 275 troops that were sent in to guard the embassy. they say actually about 160 are in iraq at the u.s. embassy, another 100 in the region, on stand by in case they are needed. now, the president has invited the top four congressional leaders to the white house tomorrow to discuss the
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situation in iraq as you can imagine, there is a lot of monday morning quarterbacking what the u.s. could or should have done to prevent what is going on there, here is what mitch mcconnell the minority leader had to say. >> entirely pulling out of iraq, and jeopardizing all that had been accomplished overall of those years, was a terrible mistake. i look forward to hear what the president has to say about where we go from here on iraq. >> reporter: now majority leader harry reid as you can imagine disagreed with the criticism and said also -- reiterated what the white house said there is no appetite now for footing combat troops back in iraq. here is the majority leader. >> we shouldn't be sending our men and women back to iraq. those who attack president obama for bringing our troops home are flat wrong in criticizing him for that. and they are out of step not only with the president, but the american people.
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>> reporter: now, as the president mulls over his choices, some are saying why hasn't he acted already? senator john mccain today saying, look, isil continues its march through iraq and all the white house has done so far is bolster protection around the embassy. he wants the u.s. to get in there and do something more possibly some air strikes. tony. >> okay. so lisa, there has been talk of the united states and iran possibly cooperating to prevent further violence. where does that stand? >> reporter: some strange bed fellows indeed. deputy secretary of state william burns had a brief conversation with iranian dip nats yesterday in vienna. they are really meeting there to talk about the iranian nuclear program. but there was a brief side conversation between the two. the state department says we remain taup to talking with the iranian. there is no formal conversation on how that will move forward. >> lisa, thank you. turkey and australia are
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joining the united states and united nations in moving diplomatic staff out of iraq. evacuations come as fighters move closer to baghdad. united nations secretary general ban ki-moon expressed his concern today about the prospect of sectarian warfare. >> i am deeply concerned about the rapid dee tour or eighting security situation in iraq. including the reports of mass summary executions by i civil s. there is a real risk for the sectarian violence on a massive scale within iraq and beyond its borders. >> omar is in baghdad for us, omar, what is the latest here? how far are these isil fighters from baghdad?
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>> reporter: well, they are at a town called baquoba, east of the capital baghdad. those fighters backed by other rebels are -- were trying to overtake a number of districts there. the government says they repelled them, but the fact that the fighting took place in those areas in which some of them are only about between 55 to 60-kilometer as way from the capital baghdad, it's a reason to worry. because another side of the capital that's to the north of baghdad, they are fighting there. so they are not in the best estimation is that less than an hour drive from the capital, tony. >> omar, what is the iraqi government doing about these developments? >> reporter: well, the government is boosting security in the capital and in the areas
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that are called the belt of baghdad surrounding the capital. but politically on the political level we had developments in the last 15 minutes or so. now, political leaders, including prime minister nouri al-maliki met with kurdish, sunni, and other shia, indeed they are the top leaders of this country and came up with a statement calling on the iraqi people to unite and to stand firm against the wave of terrorism. this is their own words. they also called for social justice and to leave the sectarian wording, the sectarian provocation, so they are trying to calm things down. i don't know if they will succeed because the situation is really heading towards an all-out civil war. now, you also have 10s of thousands of shi'ites answering the call made by the grand iatola and the government is
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helping them with uniforms and weapons to go and liberate the areas that were taken by rebels from islamic state and levant and other sunni rebels. >> oh, thank you. as the it's lamb i can state of iraq and levant don't drive to baghdad we are learning more about the leadership and fansing and why isi life. has beeisil has been able to move as quickly as it has, danea lewis joins with us more. >> reporter: isil or as many team call them isis they are well coursed. rich in funding, able to maneuver, fight, about 10,000 of them and they are capitalizing on the sunni anger and dissatisfaction with the shia government in baghdad. latest videos post on the internet by self proclaimed jihadist in iraq tell you a lot about what they are. they are ruthless, they boast of killing anyone connected to
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iraqi security forces. who are they? nigel is a former director of british operations and intelligence known as mi6. >> these are actually quite battle-hardened veterans who have real commitments to the jihadist cause. and you know, in effect something of a shark force. >> reporter: the fighters come from iraq, including former members of the iraqi military under sadam hussein. but they also have recruits from saudi arabia, libya, central asia, the caucuses and even canada. and the british government says at least 400 of them are british citizens who have taken up the gun and ge jihadist cause. >> i am in the frontline. >> reporter: today british prime minister david cameron says they now represent a threat to britain. >> there should be no doubt that
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what we see in syria and now iraq in terms of isis, is the most serious threat to britain's security that there is today. >> reporter: inspired by al qaeda, which is disavoid and condemned the group, they are fought in iraq and syria. some say they were funded by saudi arabia, even syrian intelligence. their leader, an iraqi religious student was jailed by american troops in iraq and later released. >> well, so far he's shown himself to be very effective and seems to have a long-term vision, the capacity to implement that vision, we have now seen evidence that this current assault has been sometime in the planning, at least a year in the planning. >> reporter: what do they want? the creation of a kind of large tracks of syria, lebanon and iraq and to concur the shia dominated government in baghdad. having taken over oil wells,
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banks and ran extortion rinks in iraqi towns and cities. they may be one of the richest extremist groups in the world. when he was released from american custody in 2009, he said see you in new york. >> will this group be able to move in to baghdad? in some ways they are there now. setting off car bombs and intimidating and carrying out acts of ex-portion we are told and we are also told the members of the iraqi army are wearing street clothes under their uniforms so they can now fade back in to civilian life if and when the fighting comes. >> we have seen that before. dana, grit britain today announced it will reopen its embassy in iran about three years after it was attacked by protesters. what led to this and are there any concerns about the safety of the embassy staff? >> reporter: there are some basic concerns. clearly they believe that if the
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a rain vinnie government is friendly towards them and guarantees their security. er is siting the fact that there was a new presidential election. and that sets the groundwork along with them comprise on the ground their nuclear program for new relations with britain. there is no coincidence what is happening now in iraq and the fact that they announced the opening of the embassy in iran today. you are seeing a monumental diplomatic shift by western countries led by britain now from characterizing iran as an enemy and a foe and suddenly to turning them in to an ali, because they need them in iraq. >> i think you are absolutely right about that. dana lewis joining us from london. dana, appreciate it, thank you. one of the four al jazerra journalists detained in cairo egypt is now free. amazing pictures we are going to show you here. 26-year-old abdullah elshamy. he was carried out of the cairo prison just moments ago. i don't know if we have those
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shots, pretty amazing to see. elshamy had been on hunger strike for five months. the public prosecutor ordered his release on medical grounds along with 12 others. erica wood has the story. >> reporter: in prison without charge for 10 months, abdullah elshamy was arrested in august while he was reporting for al jazerra arabic on the protests being staged following the ousting of mohamed morrisey. mol long he maintained he had done nothing i don't think. five months in to his descension went on hunger strike. within four months he had lost almost a third of his body weight. >> i have been detained since the 14th of august -- >> reporter: just days after this leaked video was broad bro, elshamy said he had been placed in come terry confinement. he said vomited and passed out after being force fed. hits family warned again his health was declining but elshamy
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said he would not stop his protest until he was freed. and then on monday, a court ordered that he be released because there were no legal grounds to keep him in prison. >> translator: i have never felt happier in my life than i do today. we have had so many difficulties in our lives, but today i am born again. my soul has returned. >> reporter: there are still three al jazerra journalists behind bars in egypt, on monday peter greste, mohamed and we therstoodonce again in a courtr. it was the final day to put forth arguments. they have to wait until june 23rd to hear the verdict. the prosecution has asked for the maximum sentences meaning greste could get seven in years in prison and the other two facing 15 years. >> translator: the defends is innocent until proven guilty. we have been proven as if we are in fact terrorists as if we had
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weapons, a rapist or murder has television and four hours of outdoor time. we are locked up all day and this is unbelievable. >> reporter: they are falsely accused of supporting the outlawed muslim brotherly. al jazerra rejects all the charges, and since they were arrested on december 29th has reporrepeatedly demand understad their release. >> they havrelease. >> translator: they have not done anything they should face trial form i believe the court will acquit tell. >> reporter: since the overthrow of mohamed morsi last year, dozens of journal assists and activists have been impressed many without charges. rights groupings and media organizations around the world have been joining the call for them to be released. erica woods, al jazerra. we should tell that you a small nebraska town is cleaning up the damage left behind by two mass and i have deadly tornadoes the rare twin tornados touched down jed in pilger. two people including a five-year-old girl remember killed.
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the twister detroit or damaged more than half of the buildings in the farming community. nebraska's governor has declared a state of emergency and police have closed all roads in to pilger. meteorologist nicole miller joins us with more on the storms and their impact. nicole. >> meteorologist: very impressive system yesterday. all tolled almost 500 reports of severe weather over 30 tornadoes. the weather service goes in the day after and sees if any are duplicate reports and tracks the intensity like of those tornado that his we saw, very impressive that there were two at the same time, twin tornadoes and they were about a mile apart, really major, initial reports, so this is a look at one of them. but initial reports that go back and see the damage that has done, and based on the damage estimate wind speeds and that's how they are able to come up. so initial findings, possibly an ef4. which could have winds up to 200 miles per hour. but all of that surveying isn't den, but look at this, equal
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intensity. that's what makes it uniquer it's unique that we had two ahead once but usually one overwhelms the other and sucks the energy away. it's rare to see for this long of a period of time, two with equal intensity, and for it to be able to hold towing. now today we have to watch all of that because we have boundary through the midsection of the country. so already starting to see a little activity fire up on the dakota border. a tornado watch, that means the potential until 8:00 in this area but already thunderstorm warnings for wind and hail but have to watch the severe weather through the rest of the day today. back to you. nicole, appreciate: thank you. mike you thinker with the sheriff's department joins us on the phone from pilger nebraska. good to talk to you, sheriff. the day after you drive around your town and what do you see? describe it for me, please. >> we have numerous residents of pilger that have made their way back in to the village. and are doing their best to recover personal property, and just absorb the impact of the
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devastation. >> sell me about yesterday. tell me about when you became aware that you had a real problem on your hands and how you and the department responded in terms of trying to get word to the people of your town that something bad was coming. >> we were notified about 3:30 p.m. central that we had a tornado possibly on the ground near stanton, nebraska, which is approximately 10 miles west of pilger. it was at that time that i did observe a tornado on the ground and made that notification. that particular tornado just skirted the city limits of the city of stanton, nebraska, it did substantial damage to five to seven farm residents and we found one residents where we had five team, including three mall children trapped in the wreckage and we were in the process of extricating them when we were informed of a dual tornado threat in the pilger area. shortly after that we were notified of a direct hit with
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what we are now being told by national weather service of a probable f4 type tornado. >> oh, my goodness. did you actually put your eyes, lay eyes on the twin tornado that his hit your town, pilger? >> no, i did not see that one. i saw the first tornado. i did not see the twin other than i have seen obviously the newscasts today. >> how would you describe the clean up and cove recovery effot that lies ahead for the people of your town, of your county, of pilger? >> it's going to take sometime, this is not going to be a one or two-day process. we are going to get started tomorrow, they have we volunteers and heavy equipment. it's going to take time, this town is basically what i would consider 75% damaged or destroyed. and it's going to be tough for a village of 400 people. >> sheriff, thank you for your time. thank you so much. >> all right. >> sheriff mike you thinker wit.
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coming up, hillary clinton calls american politics the most brutal in the world. the fallout is next. power politics, how about pakistan or afghanistan. and one of pablo picasso's most famous works has a secret buried underneath the paint. we will explain.
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all right, let's look at the big board here. it's an okay, day, right? wall street. stocks gained grounded to after larger than reported expected rise in consumer prices the dow rose 28 points. nasdaq and snp500 climbing higher today. hillary clinton is use something pretty dramatic language to describe u.s. politics. al jazerra's david shuster has more. david. >> tony, it's got a lot of people upset. hill run clinton is the democratic front run never 2016 if they decides to run, as part of our ongoing book roll out clinton gave an interview to cbs news and tried to describe the tough nature of american politics. watch. >> politics is so unpredictable.
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whoever runs has to recognize that the american political system is probably the most difficult, even brutal in the world. >> the most brutal political system in the world? more brutal than india and pakistan? inning dear tkpwa*upghandi has . even clinton supporter admit it is a very big gaff. the senate has gotten nasty. six months out from election day. nasty ads have aired. here is the first one by republican joanie ernst. >> washington politician brew braley is already running a dirty cam paint he inning schultz farm, he his ads called sexist, even mocked chuck for the for not having a law degree. >> political strategists tell them if you are going negative,
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go negative and tell people that your opponents is forcing to you do it. which is what she did. the 24 hours that might make hillary clinton envious, bride en was in brazil to watch the u.s. soccer game and a tv announcer mistakenly identified him as president biden. then team usa won and biden led the con blagojevich layingses . locker room. >> congratulations you guys were great, spectacular. are you kidding me, this is a kick, man. >> when it comes to the meet and greet,ed by sen a natural. remember, he's wearing a nice suit around a bunch of very sweaty athletes and yet, watch this. >> mr. biden. >> vice president i want to show you i still have the coin from last time. >> hey, i owe you a drink. >> he puts his arm and arm aroua sweaty guy.
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>> biden supporters say moments like that he's willing to embrace a sweaty guy shows he has a lot of charm. >> nobody hugs it out by joe biden. coming up on al jazerra, inmates in three states set to be executed within 24 hours starting tonight. the first lethal injection since a botched execution in oklahoma. we are back in a moment.
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♪ ♪ welcome bark everyone, to al jazerra america. a georgia inmate is set to die by lethal injection tonight. marcus well -- ins would be the first prison input to death in the united states since a botched execution in april left an inmate squirm on the ground a death chamber gurney. that execution intensified debate over the ways states
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execute prisoner, roxana joins you now. >> marcus is one of three prisoners across the united states set to be executed this week. both critics and supporters will be watching closely tonight. they want to see if the execution actually happens and whether the lethal drugs work. after nearly two months and growing debate over capital punishment, a death row inmate is set to die tonight in georgia. the first execution since a botched lethal injection in oklahoma ignited a question debate about the drugs being used. american for marcus has argued georgia is too secretive about the drugs being used. >> they are getting it if from on you compounding pharmacy they are not test today efficacy, safety, or anything that could make an attempted execution with a drug like that very painful and possibly ineffective. a new law in georgia protects the identities and manufacturing methods of companies that make execution drugs, considering
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them confident shall state secrets. wellins attorney agod the simple truth unless you know how it was made, where, from what and, by whom, you cannot know what it is. concern has grown ove over execn methods as states face shortages of the drugs they need and scramble for new sources and mixes this, critics say has led to the botched execution of two men this year. >> states have now scramble today try to find new drugs or new combinations, in a bit of an experiment with human subjects and that has delayed things, these things have cost more, the executions haven't gone well, so things are in a turmoil right now. >> the state of georgia is slated to kill marcus wellons by lethal injection in less than three hours, at they have 30:00 p.m. eastern tonight.
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his attorney still hopes to stop the execution. we reached out to the georgia department of executions an dird did not get a response. israel has intensified their search for three teenagers that disappeared last thursday. they went door to door yesterday, the teens went missing after attending religious classes at a settlement. 40 palestinians were arrested overnight. israel blames hamas for the disappearance of the three teens. so far nearly 200 palestinians have been arrested most of them hamas leaders. and kenya's president says domestic actors looking for stoke ethnic tensions are behind two separate attacks, and not al shabach. at least 15 people were killed overnight in the coastal town of. here say report. >> reporter: he can't talk about what happened without shaking. the but she says she's trying to be strong for her sons. they should be at school now, but most everything has been
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shutdown. after sunday's shooting rampage that killed nearly 50 people. >> reporter: there are the only family whose mail head was not killed in this apartment block. 14 others were ordered out on the street, their throats slit, their bodies riddled with bullets, their wives forced to watch. they belong to the community who are christians, something that gunmen specifically inquired about. >> we are telling people here is swswahili, that if you don't knw how to talk or even thousand pray in islamic way, then we are going to [inaudible] it will be to us evening christians [inaudible]. they know how to arm themselves. >> reporter: she like her husband is worried this will escalate in to a larger
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conflict. she wants to move out. >> we don't see [inaudible] in the night, the night was very silent. we don't see even the police. >> reporter: this is what the people are still seeing on their streets, blood stains and carnage. new attacks in nearby villages are increasing fears in the area, with concerns that the police are losing control. the somali armed group al-shabab said it's responsible for the two days of violence, security chief says local commanders, and officers have been suspended but also had a political message. >> translator: there is a plan to disturb the country from within. and turn kenyans against each other. the enemy is from within. >> reporter: as attacks spread in the area, officials are urging restraint and warning against retaliation, that if people here continue to bury their dead, discontent is growing, al jazerra, south eastern kenya.
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a british satellite company says search cruise are looking if the wrong place for a miss mag lacia airlines flight 370. data threat australian search teams to the southern indian ocean, but before reaching a search area, they got sidetracked by a signal they thought might be from the planes black box. they say the team spent two months searching in an area that was too far northeast the plane went missing in early march with all 239 passengers and crew board. explosions at a pipeline carrying russian gas they say was terror immaterial. no one was injured, russia cut supplies to you drain earlier this month after the two sides argued over the price. kiev says the blast was an tack meant to discredit kiev and fortunater negotiations. russia says it still has a parallel pipeline to supply europe. and in south sudan officials in the capital say more than 30 people have died from cholera,
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human rights groupings are worried the current epidemic will spread beyond the capital. here is more from june a. >> reporter: juba's cholera epidemic awareness campaign is in full swing, but with the city's lack of plumbing running waste and often raw sewage down the middle of the street, they have their work cut out. families get soap lessons, but peer in to their murky water and the problem is clear, there is no knew nil pass water supply in june a most families get their water from the river nile. >> we need the government to take care of the water here. some people just put something rubbish and everything in water, some bad things, that's why bring to us the disease. >> reporter: there are two small working water treatment depots in juba, this one donated by u.s. aid. tanker drivers told us power cuts shutdown the pumps most days causing long delays.
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so many come here to the riverbanks to fill up instead. juke a is growing so fast but it's primary drinking water supply is what it's always been, the river nile. but that river is also a source of cleaning water, industrial water, and it's used for waste disposal. it's quicker, cheaper, and uncief hands out bottles of chlorine solution to dose them. but many locals are too poor even for this. richard is covering from cholera at a special doctors without borders clinic, told us, sometimes i buy clean water but sometimes i just can't afford it. south sudan's government says a lack of resources and a return to internal conflict, has stalled plans to fix the problems. >> one piloxing one, there is poor hey jean because of the not well managed sewage system. the population will be
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definitely affected with this kind of disease. >> reporter: in juba town, raw sewage pooled behind buildings runs in to channels that feed the nile. newly built sewage oxidation ponds charge fees for disposal, and are already too small for one of the fastest growing cities in africa. in these conditions, cholera will just keep coming back. a neat, a al jazerra, juba. new allegations against the police departments in warren jeffs polygamist secretar sect . maria has that store any other headlines making news across the county. >> reporter: two towns across the utah, arizona board are influenced by sect leaders, they want a federal judge to disban the agencies that oversee warren jeffs' polygamist groupings, they are asking for a monitor to oversee the police departments in the judge doesn't disband them. international child sex abuse website the man that started it
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is going to prison for 30 years, his sentence was part i've plea agreement with prosecutors. the investigation in to his website let to the conviction of more than 600 u.s.-based customers. a california wildfire is now 75% contained. slower moving winds are helping firefighters surround the blaze, there was no overnight growth in the sierra nevada area, residents from a thousand homes have been returning to their properties. in rhode island a superior judge has ordered the removing of a waterfront house. the $2 million home was built on lands designated for public use as a park. the owner says it hired an engineer to survey the land and get the necessary building permits, problems arose when the owner went to sale the house. the question is what happens to the house now? it either has to be torn down or removed. >> you can do that, you can pick them up and move them to different places, but that's a real headache. >> that's a million dollars
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home. a big house. >> appreciate it. thank you. it was a stamp that cost one penny, right some but now it's kind of a one of a kind stamp. magenta postage stamp may bring in $20 million at auction tonight. kristen reports. >> reporter: it's an historic building, dedicated to what could be considered an old-fashioned hobby. but after more than 100 years in existence, the new york collectors club still attracts young stamp collectors like 14-year-old truth muller. >> i am more like things that are just very unusual. >> reporter: he says sifting through sheets of sold stamps in the club apt archives has exposed him to new people and places. >> i almost think of stamps as almost like little tiny travel -- time travel devices. because they are really -- it's such history contained in these little items. >> so we have the membership application. >> reporter: interest in stamp collecting isn't quite what it
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used to be back when president franklin del know roosevelt was a member here. but the club still manage to his draw a crowd for monthly lectures, the president says things have changed because of the internet. >> is a child growing up new york my family couldn't afford to travel so i traveled through stamps. i my first views of the world through stamps. today yo you can go on the web d get magnificent views of the world and find out almost anything. the web is increasingly where stamps are bought and sold. back in the 1930s there were hundreds of stamp dealers on nassau street here in lower manhattan, now there is just one store front. threw there are hopes the auction will generate new interest for a new generation of collectors. sotherby's is about to sale the most valuable stamp in the world
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were the british guy january a 1 cent magenta. a 12-year-old boy discovered in in 1893. it's set a new world recover every time it's been sold. >> i think for young stamp collectors and for me when i was a child the idea that a 12-year-old could discover this stamp, always excited it and weigh thought we could do it too. >> reporter: he admits to being fascinated bid by the stamp even if he can't afford. coming up, the next step in treating diabetes could be an iphone . we'll show you why it works and why it's so promising, a hidden painting found underneath one of picasso's most famous works.
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medical technology has changed how we diagnose illnesses. ranging from heart disease to cancer. now a boston biomedical engineer is helping change how diabetes and diabetics actually manage their disease using an iphone cath turn hears the details. >> reporter: david was just 11 months old when he was diagnosed with type one diabetes. his life and his parents' lives have resolved around managing the disease. >> like in school, i used to go down to the nurse's office every single day and the nurse would call my dad and would tell him what my blood sugar was. and what to bowl us it or not, or to keep cashes. >> reporter: type one diabeticss don't produce enough insulin a hormone that converts food in to energy. they have to constantly monitor their glucose levels and work out how much insulin they need
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to eject. high blood pressure can be fatal. low blood sugar can lead to a seizure or comb a david's father is a biomedical engineering and co-creator of the bionic pancreas. the hardware consists a censor inserted under the skin. and the software is an app, that automatic regular lit blood glucose every five minutes. >> it has a transmitter that sense a radio frequency to the bionic pancreas, the it decides how many insolents is delivered through little needles. >> people were very excited about, number one, not having to pay nearly as much attention to controlling their di diabetes i, because it's a lot of work, and number two, having less highs and less lows, which make them feel a lot better, and reduce their anxiety i about having a dangerous low.
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>> reporter: the device isn't a cure for diabetes, it goes a long way to lifting the emotional and physical burden of living a between salary life threatening disease, cath turner, al jazerra, boston. how about this, a hidden painting has been discovered behind within of picasso's famous works, the blue room. john terret has literally been peeling back the players. >> i have. i love this, it's an art gallery in here. >> enjoy? >> it really s i feel like we gg to meet somebody special. >> so, stop. >> apart from you. no, you understand. the interest peaked in this back in the 1950s when you and i were boys. >> there you go. >> and they thought there was something underneath this painting called the blue room but couldn't be sure and they thought because the fresh strokes weren't right, they weren't in the right direction and, took them 60 years, inial now to find out. basically new technology means that we can literally see the picasso and the man did he end him. literally.
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take a look. pablo picasso was feeling down when he drew the blue room struggling with depression of a a death of a friends the start of the so-called blue period. who could blame him, he couldn't get a break, nobody was buying his stuff, he was melancholy and so were his paintings and the part word gail gave him the brushing off. and look what turned out two. for the price of one. infrared technology reveal a mystery man behind the blue room. >> in recent years there has been a greater interest in taking new technologies to understand that there is information about picasso that we didn't know because he had covered it up. >> turns out picasso used his canvass more than once like many great artists and he painted the blue room on top of the man with the beard. >> it's one of those moments that really makes what you do special. and then the second reaction was, well, who is it? and we are still working on
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answering that question. >> the discovery has set off a frenzy of academic research to find out who exactly the mystery man is. the only thing scholars agree on so far, it's not a picasso self portrait. >> right. and the museum says people love this kind of detective work. it really adds to the value of the painting. and i know that you want to see it painting now, don't you? you can't, tough luck it's in south korea until the end the 2015. but the good news is they man a tour. >> you have to tour that, right? the. >> they are going to tour if and show you the blue man and alongside it will be a photocopy if you will pinned to the wall with what's underneath it. >> that's terrific. good stuff. >> it's a good store i can isn't he t*? >> we did okay with the wall. >> right. it really is. what are you doing later? >> a cup of coffee. >> sounds good. >> i am with you. coming up on al jazerra, we will take you live to brazil where the host country staking on mexico in a really key matchup. but first, starbucks is offering its baristas a shot at getting a
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bachelors degree online, ray suarez joins us with more on tonight's inside story. >> it's called the starbucks college achievement plan, they'll pay their full tuition they are juniors and seniors and subdecide flesh men and i sophomore. the deal is only available at arizona state university. but there are strings, students need to pay up front and get the money back when they complete the work. we look beyond the feel-good headline to examine the impact. too this be a trend-setting move in join us at the top of the hour.
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the isil is using, this kill come as month surprise, social media to recruitin recruiting p began a. >> isil is described by some experts as very associate media savvy. so much so that the iraqi government recently ordered a social media shutdown in
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providences they didn't want them to promote their propaganda and recruitment. twitter suspended some of their accounts because they have been posting disturbing photos of mass executions like these wins, we have seen these images over and over again over the last few days, twitter has a policy against posting threats of violence, and the company can only shutdown an account at the request of a government. but there are other support accounts out there that are also tweeting out pictures of people being recruited, and this image that has gone viral, we are coming, baghdad. you can see that here. you may see these images over and over again. but there is a question of how much online support isil really has. and jay is from intel wire, he's been tracking isil traffic online. take a listen. >> they ever been extraordinarily effective at organizing their efforts and introducing noise in to the system online. so if you just do straight up kind of look at what isis puts
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out and how many retweets they get and how many people tweet their hashtags it's look like they are crushing everybody else, but in fact, there is a lot of not dirty tricks, but social media strategy similar to what a marketing company might do. >> and one of the ways burger says isil has been magnifying its message through an app called don. and people can sign up for this app and the app automatically makes isil tweets appear on your account, on your twitter feed if you sign up for it. and that, tony, gets hashtags trending. just a couple of hours ago, burger notified us that both google and twitter have taken down this app. >> yeah. and it's important to remind folks, or to remind ourselves, right, that these retweets don't necessarily point any evidence of success by isil in recruiting people to its cause and fight inside iraq. and we always have to be kind of
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dubious of the information that's posted. and tweeted by these organizations, correct? >> right. they are just using savvy ways automatic ways for these tweets to trends. >> just to raise its profile. maria, appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. and a word of an explores now, in nigeria where fans had gathered to watch a world cup match. reuters aren't it happened in the northeast of the country. there is no word on casualties at this point. this is the same area recently devastated by attacks from the radical islamist group boko haram. government has advised residents to avoid gathering in public to watch the world cup certained about attacks. such as the within that we are g reports of. ♪ ♪ where are these live pictures? where are any from? today is the sixth day of play at the 2014 fifa -- oh, there we go. of the fifa world cup.
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mexico and brazil just wrapped up the second game of the day. let me tell you something, that was a highly-anticipated match in that group. it ended scoreless, right? 0-0. a draw. i guess each squad gets a point. but that is certainly not tam penning the spirits as you can see in brazil. gabriel elizondo is live for us in sao paulo with the very latest. gabe, over to you. >> reporter: that's right, we are here in kind of a bohemian neighborhood of sao paulo and it is packed with thousands of brazil fans that have been here since over two hours before the match started. they are leaving now, not too happy with this tie. they were hoping to get a victory over mexico, but that didn't happen. but as you can tell it's still a festive atmosphere here with the world cup being held here in brazil. fireworks going off, people enjoying themselves, playing music, but, again, a tie not
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quite what brazil and their fans here were hoping for. >> yeah, i want to get to -- well, before i get to what i had planned to ask you, gabe, a tie in that group, brazil and mexico, i think both won their both match, so they are still on track, right, to get out of that group, correct? >> absolutely. they still can, but i tell you, there was a lot of h expectation says that brazil would not only get out of the group but get out of their group easily and become champions. so a tie early -- this early on in the tournament is not good for brazil. there is no two ways do to cut it, tone. >> i i agree. so gabe, a lot has been made, as you know, about brazil not being ready, right, for the world cup. have you seen any signs of discontent so far? certainly not behind you. >> reporter: no, not at all. there have been protests in multiple cities, but it's been
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100, 200, 300 people. a minuscule amount. so there has been the protests have been an absolute nonfactor. the government was always saying once the tournament started the protests were going to go way and it was going to become a party atmosphere and as you can tell, that is exactly what has happened. the ai airports be functioning pretty well, as well stadiums, we haven't had any major problems with stadiums and the big one, security, no major security breakdowns as well. so all good for prasil so far. >> what is next, now? what is next for brazil in its group and i want to know what the reaction was to the united states playing its opening match yesterday, and winning that match, by the way? >> reporter: that's right, well, first let's get to brazil. they play cameroon next and that's going to be a ski game for brazil. obviously because they really need to win that. it's going to be m in the capitl
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of brazil. a lot of people here in brazil were surprised by the u.s. win and quite happily. a lot of people saying, wow, the u.s. one who would have thought. >> gabe, appreciate it, thank you. that's all of our time i am tony harris in new york, "inside story" is next. >> a new partnership between coffee giant, starbucks, and arizona state university, has offered thousands of workers making cappuccinos and lattes their own higher end. that's "inside story." >> hello, i'm ray suarez. all